Emily has added 'key' to her repertoire today.
We had a morning playdate with Victoria and Soraya. They just came to Tokyo at the start of the year, so I was happy to introduce her to little-known Kyu Shiba Rikyu garden at Hamamatsucho. We were blessed with warm sunshine and the garden was very tranquil. Soraya can't quite walk yet, but seemed happy crawling around on the grass. Emily pottered about while we chatted. Victoria is really nice. She is half-Persian and her husband is Ethiopian. Coincidentally, they both moved first to the UK and then to the US. Soraya will be lucky to learn English, Farsi and Amharic, and maybe some Japanese too if they stay long enough, which I hope they will.
After Emily's nap I returned to Hamamatsucho and walked a bit further to the much larger Hamarikyu garden, where there was a TMG get-together. There were about 10 of us, a nice manageable number; the babies ranged from 6 months to two and a half. We set up camp on the picnic meadow, close to a grove of cherries that were dropping petals like confetti every time the breeze stirred them. Emily immediately got filthy playing with some gravel, and tucked into Bettina's punnet of strawberries without so much as a by your leave, resulting in red stains all over her T-shirt.
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